Here in new england

Sunday

BOSTON — A 19-year-old Boston man has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a pregnant woman who was killed while celebrating her birthday.

Police said Saturday that Ruben Sanchez is to be arraigned Monday on a murder charge in the death of Paola Castillo.

Police say Castillo was attending her 18th birthday party Sept. 20 at a friend’s house in the Hyde Park neighborhood, when she asked several people who had crashed the party to leave.

Castillo was shot in the neck after she stuck her head out a window.

Witnesses said the shot was fired by one of the men who’d been thrown out of the party. Police say they had Sanchez under surveillance for several days before arresting him Friday night.

AMHERST — Amherst police are cracking down this weekend on the illegal possession of beer kegs in town and at the University of Massachusetts.

Police Chief Scott Livingstone told The Daily Hampshire Gazette that residents who want to buy a keg of beer must go to the police station and fill out a form listing the people who live where the keg will be taken.

He says Amherst and UMass officers look for unlicensed kegs being purchased at package stores or being brought to parties. Those caught with an unlicensed keg are subject to a $200 fine.

The crackdown comes one week after an unusually high number of students needed medical attention because of binge drinking.

ALSTEAD, N.H. — New Hampshire health officials are trapping mosquitoes in the southwestern part of the state to see how widespread Eastern equine encephalitis might be, after an emu in Alstead contracted the disease.

Jose Montero, director of the state Department of Health and Human Services, told the Keene Sentinel that EEE had not been found in southwestern New Hampshire previously.

From Associated Press reports

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